Research Support Infrastructure: Implementing A Clinical Research Coordinating Center

Insufficient infrastructure is one of the challenges facing investigators in the field of clinical research. At the University of Louisville (UofL) Division of Infectious Diseases, we developed a multidisciplinary coordinating center with the aim to support investigators in all aspects of the clinical research process. The objective of this article is to describe the composition and the role of the different units of the UofL Clinical Research Coordinating Center. The different components of the Center can serve as a template for institutions interested in developing a clinical research support infrastructure. DOI: 10.18297/jri/vol2/iss1/8 Received Date: January 25, 2018 Accepted Date: February 1, 2018 Website: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/jri Affiliations 1University of Louisville Division of Infectious Diseases, Louisville, KY 40202, 2University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. Louisville KY 40202, 3St. Mary’s College of Maryland Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, St. Mary’s City, MD, 20686 ©2018, The Author(s).